In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery.
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Robotic
MICS and Robotic-Assisted Surgery: A Roundtable Discussion With the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club
December 20, 2025
December 10, 2025
This video demonstrates an approach to robotic surgery with fibrillatory arrest.
December 1, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic aortic valve replacement procedure for a 64-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis.
November 21, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. T. Sloane Guy, a cardiovascular surgeon at Georgia Heart Institute at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, about the evolution of robotic cardiac surgery.
November 20, 2025
In this article, the authors review the current and emerging role of robotic-assisted surgery in vascular surgery.
November 6, 2025
This video presents an advanced surgical workflow that combines 3D planning and mixed reality to enhance precision, safety, and case-specific strategy in robotic thoracic surgery.
November 5, 2025
This video demonstrates a technique for the implantation of a robotic mitral valve annuloplasty band.
November 5, 2025
This video illustrates how teleproctoring allows the performance of complex robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lung resections, even in the early phases of a robotic program.
November 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a 42-year-old woman with seropositive myasthenia gravis who underwent successful bilateral robotic extended thymectomy for a 9 cm thymoma infiltrating the pericardium, right phrenic nerve, and right lung. Clear margins were achieved, and surgical clips were placed for potential adjuvant radiotherapy.
October 31, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Husam Balkhy about robotic cardiac surgery and simulation training in cardiothoracic surgery.